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Mingulay Boat Song
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Passion-filled song of the sea.
irish folk songs scottish
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Marc Gunn is an Irish and Scottish folk singer with a strange affinity for Celtic ballads, drinking songs and cats, and he is the lead singer for the Brobdingna
Marc Gunn is an Irish and Scottish folk singer with a strange affinity for Celtic ballads, drinking songs and cats, and he is the lead singer for the Brobdingnagian Bards.
Song Info
Genre
World • Traditional Celtic
Charts
Peak #147
Peak in subgenre #12
Author
Traditional
Rights
Marc Gunn
Uploaded
May 30, 2008
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MP3
MP3 5.7 MB • 192 kbps • 4:09
Story behind the song
Mingulay is a small island in the Outer Hebrides near Barra. Although the tune and these words are similar to many sea shanties, these words were written by Sir Hugh Roberton in 1938 for the Glasgow Orpheus Choir
Lyrics
Mingulay Boat Song Hugh S. Roberton, founder of the Glasgow Orpheus Choir Heel yo ho, boys; let her go, boys; Bring her head round, into the weather, Hill you ho, boys, let her go, boys Sailing homeward to Mingulay What care we though, white the Minch is? What care we for wind or weather? Let her go boys; every inch is Sailing homeward to Mingulay. Wives are waiting, by the pier head, Or looking seaward, from the heather; Pull her round, boys, then you'll anchor 'Ere the sun sets on Mingulay. Ships return now, heavy laden Mothers holdin' bairns a-cryin' They'll return, though, when the sun sets They'll return to Mingulay.
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